{"id":68553,"date":"2019-03-31T19:06:11","date_gmt":"2019-03-31T23:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/?p=68553"},"modified":"2019-03-31T19:06:18","modified_gmt":"2019-03-31T23:06:18","slug":"the-daily-gouge-archive-friday-march-29th-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/?p=68553","title":{"rendered":"The Daily Gouge Archive, Friday, March 29th, 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s Friday, March 29th, 2019…but before we begin, here’s another sign a significant number of Americans don’t know their a*s from their elbow, including “journalist” Ann Schmidt, who penned this report:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Keanu Reeves helps fellow flight passengers after emergency landing in California, social media shows<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n

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“Come with me; I will take you to Burbank by van.”<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

“Keanu Reeves\u00a0doesn\u2019t have to be in a movie to be a hero<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong> The 54-year-old actor was on a\u00a0United flight\u00a0from San Francisco to Los Angeles on Saturday when the plane had to make an emergency landing in Bakersfield,\u00a0Calif., according to\u00a0USA Today.<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Reeves hardly missed a beat, allegedly taking the lead in figuring out the best way to complete the last 100 miles from Bakersfield to Los Angeles<\/em><\/span>. The \u201cMatrix\u201d star\u2019s everyday heroics were captured on the Instagram story of\u00a0Brian Rea, a freelance cartoonist who illustrates The New York Times\u2019 \u201cModern Love\u201d column, and recorded by other social media users who posted the video on\u00a0Twitter<\/em><\/span>.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Rea\u2019s story showed\u00a0a collection of images and videos of the trip, beginning with Reeves boarding the flight in San Francisco, followed by the announcement of the diversion to Bakersfield.<\/span><\/p>\n

After announcements that they would complete their trip on a bus, Reeves could be seen discussing the logistics of the trip and waiting for their luggage with other passengers at the Bakersfield airport.\u00a0<\/strong>The next video clip showed\u00a0the \u201cJohn Wick\u201d actor in a van with other passengers, reading facts about Burbank and playing country music from his phone<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span><\/span>“<\/p>\n

Not exactly the stuff of\u00a0JFK and PT-109<\/em><\/span><\/a><\/span>.\u00a0 We in no way mean to belittle Reeves for acting like a normal human being, let alone going out of his way to be helpful; rather we’re calling into question what social media deigns to define as “courage”.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sorry, but when a movie star sharing a van from Bakersfield to Burbank after an in-flight emergency constitutes anything remotely like<\/em><\/span> “courage”, AOC will occupy the White House.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Oh,…and as regards this headline from USA Today<\/em>…<\/strong><\/p>\n

Barbara Bush: Did she still consider herself a Republican? ‘I’d probably say no today<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a>.’<\/span><\/h1>\n

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